Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles Theo Olive harvest season has already bean a time of clashes. Things year. Oh, there is an Israeli settlement outpost at the top of this hill on some of the olive trees and near to that on. So that's why this time of year, it's always a time of tension. When the farmers tried thio harvest the olives close to settlements on many reported attacks already this year from Israeli settlers. Just over this way, you can see some of the volunteers. The Palestinian activists are trying to make their way up the hill now. What they say they are doing is that they are here to protect the olive harvest to protect the farmers. The point about the olive harvest is it's not just economically vital to the Palestinians, especially this year with the devastation that's been caused by coronavirus. But it's also, symbolically hugely important, a symbol of Palestinian national identity. Israeli forces say they investigate any attacks by settlers and that they safeguard harvests and keep public order. Palestinians dispute much of that. One of the Palestinians lights a fire. Israeli soldiers are moving down here past the fire is burning. The settlers, they're trying to put it out at the moment. Andi, while all this is happening, there's been some Palestinians moving up the path here, throwing stones towards the soldiers were now getting pushed back away from the fire. The settlers here is still trying to put out what? The fire that's burning. Palestinians were moving, Palestinians being pushed back down the hill here. Things kicked off when there was somebody injured and being carried. You have some more rocks being thrown here on. The soldiers are firing back. We're in the middle of this with okay. Wait E a cool, I tell you, man. Oh, yeah.
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